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Archaeology Hotspot Egypt: Unearthing the Past for Armchair Archaeologists
Julian Heath · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The Archaeology Hotspots series offers reader-friendly and engaging narratives of the archaeology in particular countries. Written by archaeological experts with a general reader in mind, each book in the series focuses on what has been found and by whom, what the controversies and scandals... |
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The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
Philip Caputo · Henry Holt and Co.; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Longest Road, one of Americas most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large.Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled... |
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Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg
James McPherson · Zenith Press
Format: Hardcover
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Enjoy this fully illustrated edition of Hallowed Ground by James M McPherson one of todays greatest Civil War historiansJames M McPherson the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world walks readers through the Gettysburg... |
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
Dawn Anahid MacKeen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 338
Format: Print book
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An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation... |
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Conversations on the Hudson
Nick Hand · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 111
Format: Hardcover
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One spring day in 2012, fresh from his circumnavigation of the British Isles, English designer Nick Hand set off on his bicycle from Brooklyn, New York, and pedaled north along the Hudson River toward its source in the Adirondack Mountains. His leisurely pace suited his simple agenda - to talk... |
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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
John Waters · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
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A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdoJohn Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving... |
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Cotton Tenants: Three Families
James Agee · Melville House
Format: Paperback
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A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographerIn 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great... |
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Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
Geoff Dyer · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From a writer "whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era" (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers. As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance... |
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Kim MacQuarrie · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 427
Format: Print book
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Unique portraits of legendary characters along South America's mountain spine, from Charles Darwin to the present day, told by a master traveler and observer.The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker... |
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Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo
Anjan Sundaram · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries. |
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